CVE-2026-42497 (GCVE-0-2026-42497)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-26 00:17
Modified
2026-05-28 13:14
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the extraction directory.
_make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to link() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments, creating a hardlink that shares the victim file's inode.
A subsequent write through the extracted name modifies the victim file, and the post-extraction chmod, chown, and utime block in _extract_file() (guarded only against symlinks via -l) applies the tar header's mode, owner, and timestamps to the shared inode during extraction alone.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BINGOS | Archive::Tar |
Version: 0 < 3.08 |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
|---|
Nomenclature
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